CPAN::Reporter::Smoker::Installed? But I'm terrible at names. Other people always suggest better ones after I release something to CPAN. ;-)
-- David On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 9:01 PM, David Westbrook <dwestbr...@gmail.com>wrote: > thanks for the comments! > > Any suggestions for a good CPAN::Reporter::Smoker::* subclass name? > > --david > > On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 8:31 PM, David Golden <xda...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 7:59 PM, David Westbrook <dwestbr...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > >> > >> Whereas you wouldn't want to run a smoker on a "regular" machine (e.g. > >> a $work box, or your day-to-day windows desktop, or laptop, etc), > >> this is reasonably safe since it's only testing distros that you > >> already installed, which implies that they (and their dependencies) > >> are trusted. > >> Also lets you easily submit reports for all the modules you're actual > >> using, w/o a separate smoke environment. > > > > I like it. Among other things, it could be used with the File transport > to > > save reports to a directory for examination, which could be useful to > check > > things before upgrading. > > > >> > >> Is this useful for others? > >> If so, as a snippet (e.g. posted on wiki)? > >> as a subclass (name??) of CPAN::Reporter::Smoker? > >> as an additional exported sub (name??) in CPAN::Reporter::Smoker? > > > > At the very least, I'd put it on the CPAN Testers wiki. I have no > problem > > if you want to publish a CPAN::Reporter::Smoker::* module, but I don't > think > > I want to include it in C::R::Smoker itself, mostly because it's a > slipperly > > slope of extra maintenance work for me if I start accepting different > ways > > of generating the list. > > > > -- David > > > > >
